It seems like all the the leagues top defenses all run a 34.. Shittsburgh, San Fran, Green Bay (2010), Baltimore, ect. But it also seems like you have to have a great coach and system, or the 34 will be less effective than the 43. So the ceiling is higher with a 34, but I don't have enough confidence in our coaches to make that change. Maybe a few years from now under G Williams, but now isn't the time.

Remember what happened to the Vols defense last year? Switch to a 34, gave up the most yards in school history.. dating back to like 1890 LOL. I know college is different but you get the idea.

I think the whole idea is stupid. You don't dabble on defense you install a system that you believe in and sell it to players and draft the right players for that system.

You run a base defense and you run a base nickel and dime. We can run a 3-3-5 nickel with a base 4-3 but few teams do that. Most 3-4 teams use the 4-2-5 nickel.

This to me suggests that Grey is not on top things. Yes it is nice to have versatility and to occasionally show an offense something different but you have to have a defense to beleive in and now entering his third season Grey still seems unsure.

Actually we haven't run 3 Ss in dime packages. Part of that is we have not had the personnel. I think Pollard allows us to use him in a dime almost like a smaller Will so we get an extra DB on the field but we don't sacrifice the ability to stop the run completely. We might see Brown and Pollard playing like NLBs were we get a dime look but the ability to play the run more like we are still in nickel.

First of all the 4-3 that Gray was trying to install from day one was almost a hybrid 3-4 where you use the RDE and SOLB in some ways similar to a 3-4 and you have a DT that is more of a NT. But we simply have not had the right personnel to properly run that package. We have been undersized and under manned. So if/when we go to a 3-4 look now we will just have Casey, Hill and Pitouta on the DL and Wimbley will stay in the same spot but stand up. It isn't some great stretch from what we have been running. Might also be a way to give Brown a breather and bring in Fouku.

Keep in mind we have not had the size along the fron to do this nor have we had the depth at LB either. We have that now. It won't be a base defense but it is feasible for a few plays a game.

And the last couple of years all we really have had is speculation on going to a 3-4 but now we have Gray actually saying he wants to run 8-10 3-4 alignments a game.

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